Kernel Oops [#1] when playing sounds

Hi,

I'm not sure whether or not this is a kernel problem. I get the following log messages sometimes when I play sounds on my ultra5. This happens quite sporadically, so it is a bit difficult to reproduce. I use ogg123 combined with esddsp to play sounds. My kernel is linux-2.6.16.14.

Does anyone have suggestions to how I can investigate this problem further?

Regards,
Erik Østlyngen

Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.760696] Unable to handle kernel
paging request at virtual address 0000000100030000
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.770247]
tsk->{mm,active_mm}->context = 000000000000017c
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.779664] tsk->{mm,active_mm}->pgd fffff80015594000
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.788980]               \|/ ____ \|/
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.788995]               "@'/ .. \`@"
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789007]               /_| \__/ |_\
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789019]                  \__U_/
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789048] ogg123(28810): Oops [#1]
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789084] TSTATE: 0000000080009604
TPC: 00000000004fb3e0 TNPC: 00000000004fb3e4 Y: 00000000    Tainted:
GF
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789145] TPC: <memcpy+0x1a0/0x13c0>
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789173] g0: 0000000000800000 g1:
0000000100031578 g2: 0000000000000000 g3: 0000000000000038
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789217] g4: fffff8001164a940 g5:
0000000000000008 g6: fffff8001784c000 g7: 0000000000001580
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789258] o0: fffff80011c40480 o1:
0000000100030000 o2: 0000000000000008 o3: 00000000004fb3c0
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789303] o4: fffff80011c40000 o5:
0000000000000000 sp: fffff8001784eee1 ret_pc: 00000000004fd0a8
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789346] RPC:
<memcpy_user_stub+0xc/0x24>
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789377] l0: 000000000000000f l1:
fffff800118bf000 l2: 0000000000000001 l3: 0000000000000012
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789441] l4: 000000000d696910 l5:
00000000703ff2c8 l6: 0000000000000002 l7: 000000007002b90c
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789482] i0: fffff80011c40000 i1:
000000010002fac0 i2: 0000000000001ac0 i3: 0000000000000000
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789527] i4: 00000000000006b0 i5:
fffff800118bf000 i6: fffff8001784efa1 i7: 000000001004c9cc
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789717] I7:
<snd_pcm_lib_write_transfer+0x94/0xc8 [snd_pcm]>
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789744] Caller[000000001004c9cc]:
snd_pcm_lib_write_transfer+0x94/0xc8 [snd_pcm]
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789853] Caller[000000001004ccf8]:
snd_pcm_lib_write1+0x2f8/0x43c [snd_pcm]
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.789961] Caller[000000001005d850]:
snd_pcm_oss_sync+0x16c/0x288 [snd_pcm_oss]
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.790062] Caller[000000001005e470]:
snd_pcm_oss_release+0x1c/0x9c [snd_pcm_oss]
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.790129] Caller[0000000000470888]:
__fput+0xac/0x174
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.790167] Caller[000000000046f514]:
filp_close+0x68/0x7c
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.790219] Caller[00000000004381a0]:
put_files_struct+0xa0/0xf0
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.790265] Caller[00000000004389e0]:
do_exit+0x1e0/0x7e4
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.790302] Caller[0000000000439010]:
sys_exit+0xc/0x18
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.790337] Caller[0000000000406cd4]:
linux_sparc_syscall32+0x34/0x40
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.790390] Caller[000000007000d34c]:
0x7000d34c
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.790426] Instruction DUMP: b7b2890c
 bbb3090e  bfb38910 <c19a5e00> e3ba1e00  92026040  8ea1e040  02600020
 90022040
Sep 12 22:16:17 nagg kernel: [    6.790511] Fixing recursive fault but

reboot is needed!

I think I once had a similar problem on an ultrasparc 2 after I adapted the sound of the 2.6 kernel to support sbus. I remember it only appeared when I was playing using alsa and not when using the OSS interface. Further I think I debugged it as far that I could tell that the bug is in alsa code and not sparc or sbus specific.
But this was some time ago (2.6.12 or so) and I gave my sparc away since then.

Maybe you could search the mailing list archives for the sparclinux list from September/October 2005:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc

Especially:
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List:       linux-sparc
Subject:    patch for CS4231 on sbus
From:       Christopher Zimmermann <madroach () zakweb ! de>
Date:       2005-09-15 13:02:52
Message-ID: 20050915130252.GA24240 () sparc

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Hi,

This patch enables SBus support for the cs4231 sound driver. It is tested on an Ultra2. Capture and playback both work. I experienced lags and crashes using certain threaded players like ogg123 and mp3blaster, while the former is lagging far more. This behavior may be specific to SMP systems. It is reproducable using the dummy sound card driver. Sox works flawlessly.
It is not tested on EBus at all.
Setting up the calculation of ptr in snd_cs4231_playback_pointer was a bit strange. I got it to work by not incrementing the [pc]_periods_sent counter when starting DMA the first time in cs4231_dma_trigger. Therefore this dummy thing.

Christopher Zimmermann

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I hope this helps you.

Regards,
Christopher Zimmermann